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Useful Fitness Resources

Here are the books, dvds, ebooks that I have found most useful. I have broken it down into categories, it's not comprehensive and I will add to it as and when.

Books

Feed Your Head

Strength, Conditioning & Fitness

Facts and Fallacies of Fitness by Mel Siff. When I first read this about 4 or 5 years ago it changed the way I thought about everything in fitness, question everything anyone ever told you about fitness. Chances are you aren't going to read the more famous Supertraining unless you've got a couple of years spare. This book should be more well known.

Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe. Another one of those books you wish you'd read when you first started training as a young buck. If any young kid asks you how to get big and train - give them this, they will ignore you and keep doing 8 different types of curl but at least you tried.

Practical Programming by Rippetoe & Kilgore. Doesn't just give you a list of programs, but gives you the tools to think for yourself and create your own. It assumes you know what exercises to do, so don't expect it tell you how to do a row or chin up, if that's what you need then try...

Maximum Strength by Eric Cressey. Takes you through a 16 week program, explains how to do your warm up, exercises explanations, tells you exactly what to do each week of the training program. Good if you like to know eaxctly what to do each workout, but then you can take the template & modify it, once you get a feel for it.

Infinite Intensity by Ross Enamait. Once you've read this you're going to find yourself in your garden/ garage or park hitting a tyre with a sledgehammer, doing burpees and constructing your own sand bag. All without the help of a crossfit affiliate or military fitness expert.

Dinosaur Training by Brooks Kubik. Another no frills approach to training. Do the basics well. Again this book assumes you already know how to deadlift, power clean etc. Good motivational quotes & passages and simple programs.

Back Rehabilitation, Physical Therapy

Lower Back Disorders by Stuart McGill. The techniques and theories in this forms the basis of the chronic lower back rehabiliation course I set up. McGill is the master of evidence based exercise for lower back pain.

Born to Run by Christopher McDougall. When this book first came out I thought it would only appeal to the ultra running community. Little did I know, it made ultra running mainstream, it probably resulted in podiatrists doublng their income from barefoot running injuries and made the owners of the vibram five fingers company millionaires. Still, this is one of my favourite books of all time and very inspirational.